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Biographical
Note

Charles O'Neal,
92, a Writer for 40s and 50s Films and TV by William Grimes (New York Times,
5 September 1996)

Charles O'Neal, a
film and television writer and the father of the actor Ryan O'Neal, died on
Sunday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 92. Mr. O'Neal, known as
Blackie, was born in Raeford, N.C., and grew up in Atlanta. He briefly attended
Georgia Tech before transferring to the University of Iowa, where he studied
literature and played on the football team.

Mr. O'Neal went to
New York City intent on becoming an actor. Supporting himself as a horse groom,
a telephone repairman, and a bank clerk, he acted in the theater in New York,
Southern California, and Chicago. He was a leading member of the Old Globe Shakespearean
Repertory in San Diego and, with his wife, staged several productions at the
Old Globe Theater, including Robinson Jeffers's verse drama "Tower Beyond Tragedy,"
with Judith Anderson.

After publishing
a short story in Esquire in 1940, he turned to screen-writing. He is credited
as a co-writer of "The Seventh Victim" (1943), "Cry of the Werewolf" (I 944)
, "Montana" (1950), "Lassie's Great Adventure'9 (1963) and other films. He was
the sole screenwriter of "The Missing Juror" (1944), "I Love a Mystery" (1945)
and "Return of the Badmen" (1948). He later wrote numerous episodes for television
series including "The Untouchables," "Lassie" and "The Californians." Collaborating
with Abe Burrows and Ralph Blane, he turned his novel "The Three Wishes of Jamie
McRuin" (1949) into a Broadway musical, "Three Wishes for Jamie." Starring John
Raitt and Anne Jeffreys, it ran for 75 performances in 1952. With Victor Trivas,
he wrote the novel "The Thirty-Second Day."

In addition to his
son Ryan, he is survived by his wife, Patricia, another son, Kevin, a screenwriter,
also of Beverly Hills, and five grandchildren, including the actors Tatum, Griffin
and Patrick O'Neal.

Box 1

1) "The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer," screenplay, from an original outline by Harry Jackson and
Sam Weston, 20p, nd.

15) "Love Is
Where You Find It," screenplay, by Charles O'Neal and Fritz Rotter, first
draft, 156p, 1944, and another version, 29p, nd.

16) "Lover Come
Back," by Charles O'Neal and James Burnes, 46p, nd.

"Lovers Come
Back": see "Homesick Angel"

17) "Lucky,
the Leprechaun" #2, screenplay, from an original story idea by Mickey Rooney,
33p, 1955

Box 4

1) "The Man
in Cell 88," first draft, 50p, 1946

2) "The Martyr,"
10p, (incomplete), nd.

3-5) "Mention
My Name," play, based upon "Reminiscences of an American Military Governor",
by Capt. Gordon F. Feehan, two copies (one with extensive corrections), 136
1. each, and another version entitled AMGO-'47, 184p, nd.

6) "The Money
Maker" ("G.E. Series"), screenplay, 64p, 1956

7) "Montana,"
screenplay, by James R. Webb and Charles G. Booth, from an original story by
Ernest Haycox, revised by Charles O'Neal, 121p, 1948

8) "My Cousin
the Deacon," 7p, nd.

9) "Name, Age,
Occupation," 98p, 1942

10) "Nathaniel
Hawthorne" ("Cavalcade TV"), 28p, 1952

11) "On the
Sound of the Horn," by Charles O'Neal, 12p, nd.

12) "Once Upon
a Murder," by Fritz Rotter and Charles O'Neal, 52p, nd.

13) "Only Those
Who Love," 17p, nd.

14) Outline for Musical,
by Erik Charell, 12p, nd.

15) "Ozark Amber,"
16p, and another -version, 17p, nd.

16) "Ozark April,"
by Charles O'Neal, 19p, nd.

"Panic":
see "The Ring"

17) "Patrick
Manogue: Padre of the Comstock," based on an idea by Sean McClory, 40p,
with cover from copy for second agent, nd. See also Tales of the Hardrock Men

5-9) "The Thirty-Second
Day," by Charles O'Neal and Victor Trivas, first typescript (extensively
corrected), 290p, second typescript (two copies, one slightly corrected), 632p,
and (continued in next box)

4-6) "The Three
Wishes of Jamie McRuin" (some drafts entitled I Flash My Antlers in the
Air), outline of a novel, 54p, miscellaneous notes, 36p, first typescript (extensively
corrected), 276p, and (continued in next box)

Box 9

1-5) "The Three
Wishes of Jamie McRuin" (continued from previous box), second typescript
(two copies, one slightly corrected), 293 1. each, third typescript (three copies,
one extensively corrected and two slightly corrected), 299 1. each, and (continued
in next box)